rose

rose · noun, verb, adjective¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wr̥dʰos“sweetbriar”
2. Old Persian · derived from*vr̥dah“flower”
3. Ancient Greek · derived fromῥόδον“rose”
4. Latin · derived fromrosa
5. Old French · derived fromrose
6. Old English · inherited fromrōse
7. Middle English · inherited fromrose
8. English todayrose

From Middle English rose, roose, from Old English rōse, but with its vowel influenced by Old French rose, both from Latin rosa. cognates and more remote and uncertain etymology The Latin is of uncertain origin, but likely via Oscan from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) (Aeolic ϝρόδον (wródon)), from Old Persian *vr̥dah (“flower”) (compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀- (var^əδa-), Sogdian [script needed] (ward), Parthian wâr, late Middle Persian [Term?] (gwl /⁠gul⁠/), Persian گل (gol, “rose, flower”), and Middle Iranian borrowings including Old Armenian վարդ (vard, “rose”), Aramaic וַרְדָּא (wardā) / ܘܪܕܐ (wardā), Arabic وَرْدَة (warda), Hebrew וֶרֶד (wéreḏ)), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰos (“sweetbriar”) (compare Old English word (“thornbush”), Latin rubus (“bramble”), Albanian hurdhe (“ivy”)). Possibly ultimately a derivation from a verb for "to grow" only attested in Indo-Iranian (*Hwardʰ-, compare Sanskrit वर्धति (vardhati), with relatives in Avestan).

rose · verb²

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rose · noun³

1. French · derived fromrosé“pinkish”
2. English todayrose

From French rosé (“pinkish”).

Rose · proper noun, noun⁴

1. Latin · derived fromErasmus
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*hrod“fame”
3. Czech · derived fromRoza
4. Slovak · derived fromRóža
5. Hungarian · derived fromRózsa
6. Yiddish · derived fromרויז
7. English todayRose

* As an English, Scottish, French, Walloon, Danish, Jewish (Yiddish רויז (royz)), and German surname, all from the noun rose. Also adapted from foreign forms of the same meaning such as Hungarian Rózsa, Rozsa, Slovak Róža, Czech Roza, etc. Compare Larose. The surname may be matronymic, but more probably topographic from residence by rose bushes or the sign of a rose, or a nickname from rosy complexion. * Also as an English surname, from a Norman name of Germanic origins, likely made up of Proto-Germanic *hrod (“fame”) and *heid (“kind, sort, type”), ultimately evolved from *hrōþiz. Introduced to England in the form Roese or Rohese. * As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Ross. * As a Slovene surname, Americanized or Italianized from Rože, from a short form of Erazem (from Latin Erasmus), compare Rozman.

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